The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

|
GAMBETTAs real name was Napoleon Gam
BETA, bur for political reasons it changed te
| Leon.
THE late William A Wheeler. ex-vice- presi
dent. would have been married again, two OF
| three years ago, had not his health been In such
| q precarlous condition.
DR. c. A. BOARD made such q ringing speech
for enlisting the Baptist women of Virginia in
the laymens movement that Prof. ]. T. Avereti
| asked isn't he widower?"
CABINS have been engaged for Henry Irving,
Miss Terry and their party the North Ger
| man LLOYD steamer Aller which leaves South
ampton for New York on the Goth of October.
DR. TANNER. the oelligerent Home-ruler cre-
ated sensation in the House of Commons re-
Gently by requesting Mr.. W. H. Smith to ask
the Poet Laureate to write an ode on the coercion
| bill.
New HAVEN News Husband-Now Mrs B. 8
| dress, suppose is what you would call a sym
| phonyl Wlfe-Yes, a Wagnerian SYMPHONY
! Husband-Why Wagneriani Wife-Because it's
| SO loud.
| SENATOR EvARTs's eldest son, the Rev Pres
| colt Evarts. assistant rector of the Church of
| the Holy Communion. of Philadelphia. is to be
married to Miss Conover. of South Amboy. n.
! j., on the I'D.
OMAHA World: Lots of pretty girls in New
York wear nutmeg around their neck a
| sprinkled top of glass of milk and things
for the same purpose.
DEACON" S. V. WHITE, of Wall street, was
graduated from Knox College, Illinois, just
thirty years ago. The college celebrates its
semi-centennial this year, and Mr.. White is to
be the orator of the occasion.
THE miners of Swansea. Wales, have present
ed to MIR. Gladstone an address engraved on a
silver-set lump of coal. Punch" once prophe-
sled that coal would some dav become so scarce
as to be ranked among precious stones
REFERRING to assertion made in this col
umn few days ago, to the effect that promi-
nent United States Senator has been unable to
raise a mustache, young lady, who ought to
know, remarks that "a man can't be q very sue
cessful Spooner who has mustache." She
looks at the matter from a very narrow stand
point; however
NoRRIsTowN Herald: A missionary in Africa
found heather tribe worshiping an Episcopal
prayer book. and encouraged to think that
his lines had fallen in pleasant places. He
wanted to go home when he learned that the
heather had adopted the book as an Idol, on &C
count of its gilded edges, after eating the mis-
sonary who owned it.
MnLET, who died in 1875. painted for thirty
one years. and during all that time he produced
only eighty pictures. Said New York artist
the other day: ''Miilet's 'Angelus' was sold for
$500 about twenty years ago. and it took whole
year to induce some to buy the picture for
that price. A dozen picture buyers could now
be found who would gladly pay $4,000 for the
canvas"
IT is said that in Portland, Me-, there is man
with false nose, glass eye, but three fingers
and one thumb. false teeth, false hair,
and cork leg. For all this he is the liveliest
man in Portland. He walks ten miles every day,
rain or shine He has had three wives, and sur
wives them all, and has refused five chances to
get married again, so he says, since he buried
his last wife, about year ago.
CARDINAL MANNING says that recently he
joined workingman as he was walking home.
and they discussed the benefits of temperance.
The man said he had not taken the pledge be-
cause he never drank too much. The Cardinal,
thinking that his example might have some
weight, said that he had = ken it, The man hes
itated minute and then vrked out: well, of
course, sometimes it's necessary" And now the
Cardinal is trying to make out what he meant.
Do you want one of DR.. Holiness autographs
He recently told an interviewer of an unknown
lady who sent him not long since a stamped and
addressed envelope inclosine blank card Not
line was written in the way of q letter. and
DR.. Holmes says if all autograph seekers would
thus try obtain their desire, fewer celebrated
people would refuse to send their Mares when
asked to do so. The Autocrat does not like long
letters explaining the applicants right to an au-
tograph.
DR.. CHARLES F. HINES professor of physics
in Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa, enter
tanned the senior class and large number of the
society people one night last week. While the
seniors were inside some undergraduates scaled
the Doctors back fence and stole the ice cream,
Notwithstanding the objections of the Doctors
bull pup. The freezers were taken to a room,
and the whole college proceeded to empty them
with forks, shaving mugs. paper knives,
whatever came handy Later note was sent
to the Doctor thanking him for the treat and
stating that the strawb berry the favorite. but
the vanilla vile. postscript added
Gliding him for neglectiug to send the cake. and
requesting that he chain the dog next time as
the brute was a serious Inconvenience This
letter the Doctor read aloud to all present.
Next morning the freezers adorned the top of
the scientific building
Mrs. C. CLARK, who has succeeded Mrs. Helen
Hunt Jackson oh. II. y in her mission among
the Indians tells the following snake story: Go
ing through the reptile department of the Jardin
des Plantes with party escorted by distin-
French savant. they stopped before the cage of
a large rattesnake. The snake lay motionless,
apparently asleep. Delaying behind their party.
Mrs Clark and friend began to speak in En-
glish To their surprise the snake moved, lifted
its head and gave every sign of interest in their
conversation. When they rejoined their party
they remarked that the snake understood En-
glisn. The whole party then returned to the
cage. The snake was apparently asleep again.
They conversed in French but the snake made
no movement; then the ladies began to speak in
English The snake started. lifted its head and
showed the same alsrtness before at the
sounds. The rattlesnake proved, inquiry to
have come from Virginia